-=> MILES MAXTED wrote to DAVID WILLIAMS <=-

 MM> G'morning David,

 DW> I *sold* my 1980 PET...
 DW> Apart from the 386, I also have a couple of 1980's
 DW> Macs, including a "Classic", which fully deserves the name.

 MM> Mmmm ... I cut my teeth on early bureau IBM machines (plug-board
 MM> accounting machines through to 360's) and Fortran before getting
 MM> into Casio programmables, PETs, TRS80's and then the Big Board.
 MM> None of that survives here now.

 MM> In `82 I converted a newspaper distribution department from
 MM> Address-o-graphs to Mitac XT's,  and still have the home one that
 MM> I drove the others with.  The family then started on a set of
 MM> Intels, some of which linger...

 MM> I still hanker after the Casio Pro101 - it had 256 steps and its
 MM> memory registers,  requiring really streamlined proggies that
 MM> often had to crash in order to extract useful outcomes... eyes glisten seeing last century's milestones as knarled fingers
 MM> twitch around the nobbly walking stick> ....

While surfing the net one day I stumbled across a site selling
brand new PETs, pretty pricey though.

Don't recall how upgraded they were however much was made
about how flexible the bus was.
 
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